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Latitude: 55.9523 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.2004 / 3°12'1"W
OS Eastings: 325139
OS Northings: 673905
OS Grid: NT251739
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.7R
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN57
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+WR
Entry Name: 20-22 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 20 and 22 Frederick Street (And 77 Rose Street)
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367351
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28791
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200367351
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1786-92; subsequent alterations. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay former pair of classical houses on corner site; ground floor built out as shops. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished long and short quoins and eaves cornice. Shop to right with panelled pilasters and consoled cornice. Broadly spaced bays; pair of piend-roofed canted dormers displaced to right.
Irregular rubble 3-bay gabled return elevation to Rose Street with broad 2-bay nepus gable at centre; shop continues at ground.
Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane at 1st floor, plate glass at 2nd (uPVC replacements at both floors). Ashlar coped skews; stack reduced at gable, removed to N; grey slates.
INTERIOR: thoroughly converted to retail use at ground.
Access to upper floors from No 77 Rose Street (see separate listing). A Group with Nos 24-32 (even nos) Frederick Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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